It’s OK for girls to show masculine traits — “strong is the new skinny” — but “men and boys are mostly shamed for expressing anything outside of the macho ideal,” writes Williams.

My Little Pony’s mythology is based on the six Elements of Harmony: “Kindness, generosity, honesty, laughter, loyalty, and magic” are the tools the heroine ponies use to solve problems, Williams writes. “What you don’t find is ambition, or aggression, or force of will.”

Barnaby wears his Rainbow Dash sweatshirt at home, writes Williams. “I’m sad that at 7, he already knows what wearing it” at school would mean.

Adult men who like My Little Pony are known as “bronies,” I’ve learned. There’s a documentary on the phenomenon.

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Not mentioned here is that the fb support group for Grayson mentioned threats to the school and so on. Not good stuff.

I have a pair of middle school boys who went to BronyFest this year. It’s really no different from being a Trekkie, except the conventions aren’t as big. Thankfully my sons are into Discord, a more masculine character. Discord is played by John de Lancie, who you might remember as “Q” from Star Trek.

In order to save you bullies from yourselves the school system will now bully your intended victims for you. The new school system supported bullying program will be under the rubric of “Banning Bully Triggers.”

Anything that will set a Bully off will be banned and the intended victims will have the school system in their faces to let them know that their qualities and behaviors are truly the real reason they are being bullied and they should stop upsetting the bullies.